Very large deals might have smaller margins as the work does not go up in a linear fashion with the price.The Internet has reduced the commissions a bit in that there are more discount brokers.Get too tight and the buyer agents will not show your place.

I bet folks pee away $50k a YEAR in lost business by being FLAKES & not returning their messages in a timely fashion in this business!

And in true sales fashion a lot of mortgage brokers, realtors, title company folks, appraisers and bankers give them what they want to hear and gloss over the rest.

Good old fashioned hard work, some sweating, some scrambling, a lot of praying and a hell of a pay day.

My purpose in writing this is to show you where your thought process has fashioned mental fetters for you.

On the surface, it looks like the interest-only is a better deal (less down and less per month) accept that every interest only loan that I know of is variable and has a relatively short balloon date.

You should be able to install right over the ceramic tile as long as you have a flat surface and it is not all cracked up.

In this situation, if the CCR’s do not in some fashion dictate such things as “Siding Types,” there is no recourse to force the builder to maintain the values of the subdivision.

I'm really just scratching the surface here, but I really want to do something soon before the bubble bursts.

Foreclosure rates on those have risen and loss will keep surfacing.